Rail-joint.



WILHELM JURGENS, 0F REDVERS, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1911.

Application filed July 31, 1909. Serial No. 510,678.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILHELM JURGENS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Redvers, in the Province of Saskatchewan and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail oints, the object of the invention being to provide a device of this character Whereby the contiguous ends of a pair of rails may be effectively and rigidly connected together without the use of fish plates or analogous devices and whereby the jar incidental to the rolling stock passing thereover will be greatly reduced, if not entirely overcome, thus adding materially to the life of the rails as well as to the comfort of the traveling public.

With the above, and other objects in view which will appear as the description progrosses, the invention resides in'the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, there has been illustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the device, and in which;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pair of rails constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the rails.

In the accompanying drawings Fig.1 designates the meeting ends of a pair of railway rails. These rails 1 are of the usual construction being provided with a head 2, flange 3 and connecting web 4:. The ends of the rail members are both of a precisely similar construction, so that the reference characters indicated upon one of the members are equally applicable to the eo-acting member. Each of the rail members has its web 1- enlarged as at 5, a suitable distance from the end of the head and base flange of the said rail, and this enlarged portion is provided with a forwardly projecting reduced tongue 6 providing a shoulder 7 between the enlargement 5 and the said tongue. The shoulder 7 is in a direct line with the head and the base flange of the rail, and the tongue 6 has its outer extremity integrally formed with a projecting threaded stud 8. The web 4; of each of the rail members 1 is provided with a suitable elongated slot which is adapted for the reception of the stud 8, and the said studs are securely connected to the webs through the medium of threaded nut members 9. The shoulders 7 are arranged immediately in line with the joint A between the rail ends to form an effective brace at that oint and prevent the full pressure or load on the rail ends from being applied directly to the meeting flanged or base portions of such ends, and as illustrated, the tongues 6 of the rail ends extend directly over the said joint A.

In assembling the rail ends, it will be noted that it is merely necessary to position the studs 8 in alinement with the openings 10 of the webs and by forcing the inner faces of the members together the threaded extremities of the studs 8 will project through the openings to receive the nuts 9.

It will be noted by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings that the openings adapted for the reception of the studs are positioned directly to the rear of the enlarged portions 5 so as to provide a means whereby the nuts 9 may be secured to the studs in a substantially parallel line with the outer face of the enlargement 5, thus entirely obviating the necessity of the members 8 projecting beyond the plane of the heads 2 of the rails as well as protecting the nuts and affording a saving and the cost of manufacture of the device.

From the above description, taken in 0011- nection with the accompanying drawings, it will be noted that I have provided a simple and comparatively inexpensive device for the purpose set forth, it being noted that the tongues of each of the rail members bear upon the vwebs of the opposite base members, thus providing means whereby the jar incidental to the wheels of the cars moving thereover is entirely overcome, while the lateral movement of the rails is prevented by the threaded studs and their connecting members, and it is to be understood that while I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of the invention as it now appears to me, minor details of construct-ion, within the scope of the following claim, may be resorted to if desired, as for instance a plurality of stud members may be employed while only one is illustrated on each of the rail members of the accompanying drawing.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is:

In a rail joint, meeting rail ends provided With enlarged Web portions adjacent the points of engagement of the rail ends, each rail end being formed to provide a vertical shoulder Which is located immediately in line With the joint at the base flanges of the rail ends, each of said rail ends having an outwardly extending tongue which is disposed directly at one side of the enlarged Web portion of the adjacent rail end, each rail end having a passage therein Which is located immediately at one side of its enlarged Web portion, and clamping bolts formed integral With the tongues at their outer ends and extending through the said passages and provided With clamping nuts for holding the rail ends operatively connected With each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

VVILHELM JURGENS.

lVitnesses Y W. D. GLEN, DICK J URGENS. 

